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By Benjamin Goron on 13 September 2018 Canadian Music

Alain Trudel In Toledo Conductor Alain Trudel will begin his first season at the helm of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in Ohio. For his arrival in the “Glass City,” the Montreal native will pay tribute to the orchestra’s 75-year history by opening with a program similar to that of the 1943-1944 season. The reduced orchestra will play chamber music by Ravel, Bloch, Mozart and Brahms, returning to its humble roots as a 22-person group named Friends of Music. “The 75 years between these two concerts have seen our orchestra grow in giant steps, but I like to think that our…

The Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert

By Newswire on 12 September 2018 Newswire, Orchestral

For Immediate Release, September 12, 2018 … The Azrieli Foundation presents an exhilarating evening of musical discovery, unveiling two world premiere works by the winners of the 2018 Azrieli Music Prizes. Inventive orchestral colour and virtuosic flair are on display for Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman’s Nigunim for Violin and Orchestra, while Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy explores a wealth of Sephardic music in her En el escuro es todo uno (In the Darkness All is One), a unique double concerto for harp and cello. Maestro Yoav Talmi conducts an expanded McGill Chamber Orchestra (MCO) for this varied programme, which includes two Hebrew songs…

An Opera for Our Time: Hadrian Conference Explores Opera’s Place in the 21st Century

By Newswire on 12 September 2018 Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Toronto – Tickets are now available for Hearing Hadrian: An Opera for Our Time, a conference on Sunday, October 14, 2018. Just one day after Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian, with libretto by Daniel MacIvor,receives its world premiere, the Canadian Opera Company will host a day-long series of panels and guest speakers dedicated to exploring the themes found in the opera and its broader operatic context. Hearing Hadrian aims to bring the long-buried relationship between the Roman Emperor Hadrian and his lover, Antinous, to the forefront of public knowledge and discussion; it also examines Hadrian’s place within the larger context of 21st-century…

New Vocal Works

By Benjamin Goron on 11 September 2018 Opera

Canadian Operatic Overview The coming opera season is once again full of surprises, including many made in Canada. From the depths of the Nigredo Hotel to the majestic summit of Mount Everest; from an American post-World War II boxing ring to the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein; from a lonely Roman emperor to a First Nations woman confronted by the disappearance of her people –; the subject matter is eclectic, to say the least. Hadrian Canadian Opera Company of Toronto, Oct. 13 To -27 Composed by Rufus Wainwright on a libretto by Daniel MacIvor, this opera recounts the story of…

Youth: The Musical Season

By Benjamin Goron on 11 September 2018 Classical Music

Déchets d’œuvres Centre Guy-Dupré À La Prairie, Oct. 6 Centre Communautaire D’anjou, Oct. 12 Sylvain Grenier and Alain Quirion stimulate the ingenuity and ecological awareness of children with their home-made instruments through a rhythmic, energetic and colorful show. Ages 6 to 12. www.pjallard.ca L’Histoire de la Musique Maison des Arts de Laval, Oct. 21 How was the music born? In one hour, Buzz Brass’s team takes us on a spatial-temporal journey that brings fundamental points of western musical history to light. Enough to awaken vocations in the young audience. www.co-motion.ca Contes du Vent Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Oct.…

Early Music

By Philippe Gervais on 11 September 2018 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

French Music at Bourgie Hall Once again this year, several great names in early music will grace the stage of Bourgie Hall. French baroque repertoire at its most intimate and refined takes a place of honour. Most notable is the concert by Jordi Savall, who will recreate the original soundtrack of the film Tous les Matins du monde (Feb. 16 and 17). Unfortunately, both concerts are sold out, but those without tickets will be able to attend a free screening of the film (Feb. 9) in which Gérard Depardieu tries his hand at the viola da gamba and the role…

Contemporary Music

By Arnaud G. Veydarier on 11 September 2018 Classical Music, Contemporary

Contemporary,” “new,” “experimental,” “creation…” Numerous qualifiers, and yet none do more than partially describe their designated types of music. If they are so difficult to define, it is because the idea of contemporaneity itself is fleeting, as it refers to a concept that is in continuous transformation and which evades categorization. It is precisely this desire to grasp the ungraspable that drives the composers of such music, for whom musical creation constitutes a path for enlarging what is accepted as possible. Fans of contemporary music will not be left behind this fall, as numerous ensembles and organizations will offer concerts…

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Georgian Pianist Nicolas Namoradze Wins 2018 Honens International Piano Competition

By Newswire on 8 September 2018 Arts Industry, Music Competition, Newswire, Piano

CALGARY, Canada, September 7, 2018 — Georgian pianist Nicolas Namoradze (age 26) has been named Prize Laureate of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition. He wins the world’s largest prize for piano $100,000 (CAD) and an Artist Development Program valued at a half-million dollars. Finalists Han Chen (Taiwan / age 26) and Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner (United States / age 21) each received Raeburn Prizes of $10,000 (CAD), and for the first time in Honens’ history an Audience Award of $5,000 (CAD) was presented to Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner. “What a wonderful thing for Honens … what a wonderful thing for Nicolas Namoradze!” says Neil Edwards, Honens’ President & CEO.…

Bartok: Concerto, Enescu: Octet (Warner Classics)

By Norman Lebrecht on 7 September 2018 CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

The one thing that keeps me from awarding this album the full five stars is that it is upside down. It opens with a perfectly decent performance of Bela Bartok’s first violin concerto by the Norwegian virtuoso Vilde Frang, with the Radio France philharmonic orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck. Frang, who is 32, has been performing since she was ten years old. Everything she does is perfectly lovely and agreeable. The first Bartok concerto, a youthful effusion of innocent love, is not going to change our lives. The octet, on the other hand, might. George Enescu was one of the great…

A New Production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila Opens The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 Season on September 24

By Newswire on 6 September 2018 Newswire, Opera

New York, NY (September 6, 2018)—The Metropolitan Opera will open its 134th season on Monday, September 24, with a new production of Saint-Saëns’s biblical tragedy Samson et Dalila, conducted by Sir Mark Elder and starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna, last seen together at the Met in acclaimed performances of Bizet’s Carmen. Laurent Naouri co-stars as the High Priest opposite Elchin Azizov as the Philistine King Abimélech and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Old Hebrew. Making his Met debut, Tony Award-winner Darko Tresnjak directs the first new Met production of the opera in 20 years. The opening performance will be simulcast…

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